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Install Windows App activity

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Install Windows App activity

The Install Windows App activity
installs an application from an MSI package on a Windows target machine.

Note: This activity replaces a Powershell activity by the same name
available in releases prior to Geneva. If you have a workflow created in a previous version
that uses the deprecated activity, your workflow will continue to work normally after
upgrading to Geneva. However, all new workflows must use the custom version of this
activity. This activity was built with the Powershell activity designer, which gives workflow administrators the ability to store input and output variables in
the databus.

Input variables

Table 1. Install Windows App input variables

Variable

Description

hostname

Hostname or IP address of the target Windows machine on which the
service is installed. Use the Resolve DNS MID Server capability to resolve hostnames into IP addresses.

installerpath

Path to the installer. The installer can be on any machine that is visible to
both the MID Server and the target machine (local drive, UNC path, mapped drive,
etc.).

installer

Name of the installer file, such as winzip150.msi. The
installer must be an MSI package.

arguments

The parameter that contains the command line arguments to the MSI package.
These are name=value pairs, separated by a space. For example, the argument might
appear as: INSTALLDIR=c:\myinstallfolder ADDDESKTOPICON=0.
These arguments are dependent on the what the actual MSI being installed defines.
If there are no arguments, leave the field empty.